18 posts from Friday, August 8, 2025

It's a truly historic day, and under this president's leadership, this historic peace deal has been truly made into reality. When people actually go back and look at the history, you hit the high points there. These two countries have been in some form of conflict, sometimes very bloody, other times a very tense situation where conflict could spark out again at any moment for over 35 years. So for this event to happen today, again, President Trump said in some of his remarks today that his aspiration, his greatest aspiration as president is to bring about peace and stability. This is yet another example of his effective leadership that brought these two leaders together in a way that hasn't happened before. And I can tell you there was a lot of work that led to this moment. This wasn't something that just happened overnight. Again, when you look at over 35 years of conflict, under President Trump's leadership, he encouraged and helped move along this ongoing negotiation between these two leaders and their countries that led to this truly historic and great event.

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All the gloom and doom, tariff inflation, tariff recession, tariff catastrophe, none of that has happened, okay? And in fact, as you noted earlier, the tariff revenues are pouring in, okay? He could do as much as $400 billion this year alone in tariff revenues. Imports from China, or let's say Chinese exports to the United States, all right, their lowest point in over 20 years. Our trade deficit through June is at its lowest point in the last two years.

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It's a long time, 35 years, they fought and now they're friends and they're going to be friends for a long time, but it's a big, beautiful honor to welcome everyone to the White House for this very historic peace summit between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It's really a great thrill for me. I love seeing good people get together and that's what you have. You have two great leaders. I want to congratulate these two visionary people, Prime Minister Pashinyan and President Aliyev, for coming to Washington to sign this momentous joint declaration. It's a tremendously important document and it's been a long time in coming. They were explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there. It never happened, it just never happened.

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As president, my highest aspiration is to bring peace and stability to the world. Today's signing follows our success with India and Pakistan. They were going at it. They were going at it big and they were great, two great leaders that came together just prior to what would have been a tremendous conflict, as you know, a nuclear conflict, probably. Also, the Congo and Rwanda. Now, that was one which was going on for 31 years. You have them beat, 35 years you have them beat, but that was going on for 31 years and we have it all done and people are very happy. That was a rough one. That was nasty. Seven million people that they know of died. Also, just recently, Thailand and Cambodia, that was one that was just starting, that 2,000 people were dead on the border, but it was just starting. And I was talking to one of the two nations on trade and I said, I'm not going to sign a trade deal if you guys are going to fight and I got the other one. And again, great leadership, Thailand and Cambodia. And before it got started beyond that first couple of days, we stopped the war and they've had wars periodically, very much as you, too, have had long-term wars and we got it stopped. And the two, again, I find in all cases, they're great leaders. If they didn't agree, I would say they're lousy leaders, to be honest with you, but they did agree. And so Thailand and Cambodia, Serbia and Kosovo, we got something stopped that was ready to start. We didn't like that one. We didn't like it at all and we got saved a lot of lives.

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To celebrate America's birthday, President Trump signed his big, beautiful bill in July. It's really promises made, promises kept, and we've kept them. The president today is signing the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stable Coins Act in the law. That's the Genius Act. The crypto market is surging like never before. President Trump was greeted today by camels and red Teslas as he arrived in Qatar, where he announced a $200 billion deal for Qatar to purchase 160 jets from U.S. airplane manufacturer Boeing. Donald Trump claimed Israel and Iran reached a ceasefire deal. He also successfully got our NATO allies to finally pay their fair share. President Trump is touting a new trade agreement with the European Union. He calls it the biggest deal ever made. President Trump announcing what he calls a major trade deal between the United States and the United Kingdom. He announced three new trade deals with Indonesia, the Philippines, and as mentioned, Japan. Japan is also promising to make $550 billion worth of investments in the United States.

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